“This is a place you can come for trusted networking with established professionals – and sure you might make a new friend along the way, but that’s not our focus,” said DeRose, 46, who began his finance career at Goldman Sachs by completing a double-digit million-dollar LBO while in his 30s. The magazine is published by the Magna Publishing Group, which was acquired by 1-800-PHONESEX on December 22, 2015.A Upper East Side financier, frustrated over the lack of available money to complete any deals, plans to pump at least $1 million of his own money into a 15-year-old worldwide social-networking company in hopes of creating an invitation-only Facebook-style online community for millionaires.įrank DeRose, who runs Furrata Capital, a private-equity firm, said the site, Total Prestige, will be different from other social-networking sites aimed at the deep-pocket set because it will focus on dealmaking. Over its 25-year run Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret and Barbra Streisand unsuccessfully attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them. The 10th Anniversary Issue of High Society, published May, 1986 featured Gail Thackray ( Gail Harris) with a 10-page spread, Centerfold and Front cover. Another venture was a celebrity focused publication, Celebrity Skin magazine, in 1986. In November 1981 a spin-off magazine, High Society Live!, debuted.

This evolved into the very first 'phone sex' lines.

Leonard, an adult film star, is credited with the use of ' 900' and ' 976 phone numbers' to advertise upcoming magazine issues. Carl Ruderman hired the adult industry's first female men's magazine editor, Gloria Leonard, in 1977. High Society was first published in May 1976. In addition to hardcore pictorials of nude models, it also has feature articles and occasional celebrity pictorials. For other uses, see High society (disambiguation).

High society magazine models